“Novalis once said that Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Plato, too, understood that Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Even the strict rationalist Sigmond Freud was forced to admit that “the poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious. What I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”

The great poet Theodore Roethke used to tell his students: “The teaching of poetry requires fanaticism… I’ll deliver you, dear doves, out of the rational, into the realm of pure song.”